Appearing in today’s Mirror is a story concerning our long-standing client, Barry George. The underlying story is of an exoneree who has received no apology and no compensation, and who feels that despite being cleared he continues to live his sentence. This is entirely typical of the experience of exonerees, and highlights the failure of care and support provided to those who have been wrongly convicted and imprisoned.
Not innocent enough…
You can read the original story HERE
From The Justice Gap, 19 May, we reproduce the following article concerning our friend and fellow-traveller, Eddie Gilfoyle. Regular visitors to this website will be familiar with the egregious miscarriage of justice suffered by Eddie, still un-corrected. The Justice Gap article adds new and depressing detail to Eddie’s story. There were renewed calls last week […]
Our recently retired Chief Executive – but ongoing trustee – Cathy Molloy, and our recently appointed trustee Patrick Maguire, were delighted to speak on Friday (16th May) at an Irish Culture and Heritage Conference, held at the St Francis Community Centre in the Gorbals by the Govanhill Baths Community Trust. Cathy spoke about the work […]
From Scottish Legal News, today, we reproduce the following article. This sorry tale of systemic failure is, ironically, probably less shocking than it should be, because it’s just another sorry tale of systemic failure in the institutions that are supposed to protect against miscarriage of justice in the UK. Over recent times we’ve heard of […]